| Introduction Who's Right in the Web Development Debate? OPEN to Change: Addressing Web Development Process Differences Managing Small-Team Rapid Web Development Web Engineering: A Methodology for Developing Scalable, Maintainable Web Applications Enterprise Application Integration Enterprise application integration (EAI), the broad-based discipline of connecting front-end and back-end applications and data structures, is driven by the need to tie together disparate systems and data to support e-business, customer, supply chain, and distribution chain requirements. In the August 2001 issue of the Cutter IT Journal, we'll focus on the key issues in this area, including: What methodology should a company use to identify the best EAI options and tools? What is the current and future state of EAI technology, and how should this evolution should be incorporated into IT plans? How can an enterprise define an integrated EAI and business-to-business integration (B2Bi) strategy? Implementing EAI may be critical to achieving the agility needed for business success today. Join us next month to see how it's done. |
Few argue with the notion that Web-based development today is ad hoc. This lack of disciplined processes raises the concern that we may face serious problems in successfully developing, deploying, and maintaining Web-based systems over the long term. Can software engineering principles, concepts, and methods be applied to Web-based application development? Or is trying to apply software engineering principles to Web-based systems the wrong way to achieve high-quality Web applications? Tune in as we discuss how the Web changes -- and doesn't change -- the way we build systems.
